Student support and academic professionals charged with military-connected student success will benefit from this event. You may want to bring a team together with representatives from:

• Veterans Services
• Academic advisors
• Student services
• Career services
• Retention professionals
• Registrars

• The current landscape: understanding the growing population of military-connected students
• Common issues facing students who are military veterans
• Successful support services
  • Student Services
    • Admissions
    • Advising & Career Services
    • Benefits
    • Earning college credit
  • Community Services & the Institution
    • Identifying and addressing potential academic risks
    • Community engagement to address needs and mitigate costs on the institution
    • Creative ways institutions are addressing issues on their campuses
• Faculty development: Creating Veteran-Friendly Classrooms

Institutions across the US are seeing an increasing rate of military-connected students. As with other “non-traditional” populations, this subset can often feel disconnected from their peers. Many are older than the 18-22 range, some have families or other commitments, and they often have jobs in addition to their classes. Many struggle with feeling that they “belong” in academe. This affords a huge opportunity for your institution to incorporate support services and develop faculty in a way that greatly impacts the success of this growing student population.